office: 114C Tate phone: 573-882-6066 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. office hours: MW 3:00-4:30 Research and teaching areas: the Renaissance and the early colonial period in the Americas

David Read teaches courses on a variety of Renaissance topics, and his research interests range from Elizabethan England to colonial America. He has published two books, Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press, 2000) and New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005), as well as essays on Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and William Bradford. He grows many different kinds of native and non-native plants in his yard and loves to talk horticulture when he gets the chance.

Education

PhD 1987, University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• David Read. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005)
• David Read. Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press, 2000)
• "History Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America." The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 3 (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• "Disappearing Act: The Role of Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra." Studies in Philology 110 (forthcoming).

Courses Taught

• English 3200: Survey of British Literature, Beginning to 1784
• English 4166/7166: Shakespeare
• English 4167/7167: Milton
• English 4300/7300: The New England Experience
• English 4970: Senior Capstone
• English 8220: Renaissance Epic